Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religion. Today there is no conflict between management and labor. Management has simply thrown in the sponge and adopted the motto: "If you can't beat them, join them." The closed shop smacks of ostracism if not outright violence. No skilled artisan wishes to become a mere tool, the slave of the type of ex-con who has lately wormed himself into labor leadership...
Speaking to the Social Relations Graduate Colloquium on "Conformism, Protestantism, and the Current Religious Resurgence," Tillich declared that ambiguity in the resurgence was reflected by the "use" of religion "as a tool rather than as a means of understanding...
...academically qualified players in their respective alma maters. They operated under restrictions. Only an estimated 3% of the best U.S. high school players can meet the Ivy schools' scholastic requirements. No financial help can be promised. But the lure of an Ivy-school degree is an important recruiting tool and, within limits, alumni can find a way. Of the 16 freshmen receiving scholarship help from the Harvard Club of Boston this year, 13 had either played varsity football or captained teams in other sports. The current Harvard freshman team boasts three rugged Oklahomans (two of them National Merit Scholars...
...Help from Home. What makes the situation precarious is that in times past, Owner Hughes could be counted on to pick up the tab for losses. But Hughes is having troubles in other parts of his empire. Hughes Tool Co., which is financing T.W.A.'s new jets, is in no position to absorb more heavy losses. For years the company did a $120 million annual business in oilfield equipment-and turned a 50 profit before tax on every dollar. Now profits are down sharply. A decline in oil drilling, rising competition at home and imports of oil from abroad...
...most minute steps on tape, which then slavishly repeats the process endlessly with the pulse-servos. Cost of the system, which comes in a cabinet no bigger than a medium-size hi-fi set: from $12,000 to $25.000, plus $500 or so to fit it to whatever machine tool it is to operate...